Microsoft Online Services Subprocessor List

This notice is to inform you of an update regarding the Microsoft Online Services Subprocessors List.

Microsoft may use non-Microsoft organizations to help provide Online Services. As a function of their role for Microsoft, a small set of these organizations may process your customer data or personal data, only to deliver the services Microsoft has retained them to provide; they are prohibited from using your data for any other purpose. In accordance with GDPR, we disclose these subprocessors to you in advance of their first engagement and provide notification of any changes over time.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 5, 2023 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Admins will be unable to add new or edit existing reports in Call Quality Dashboard (CQD) during scheduled maintenance

Planned Maintenance: Microsoft Call Quality Dashboard

We have maintenance planned for Microsoft Call Quality Dashboard:

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Originally posted by Microsoft Jan 4, 2023 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Updated opt-in setting for Microsoft Defender for Identity

Over the last few months, the experiences and functions of Microsoft Defender for Identity have been made available in Microsoft’s extended detection and response (XDR) platform, Microsoft 365 Defender. Merging identity data and functions into this XDR experience is a valuable addition to a security teams capabilities, with identity providing important context to detection logic and investigation potential.

Since all major Microsoft Defender for Identity features have now been made available in Microsoft 365 Defender portal, the portal redirection setting will be automatically enabled for each tenant starting January 31, 2023.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 29, 2022 Microsoft 365 Apps 0 Comments

Announcing Retirement of Remote PowerShell (RPS) protocol in Exchange Online PowerShell

You might already be aware that we made REST-based Exchange Online PowerShell v3 module generally available in September 2022 (read more here: Exchange Online PowerShell V3 Module General Availability).

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 20, 2022 Exchange Online 0 Comments

General Availability: OneDrive sync reports in the Apps Admin Center

Use the OneDrive sync health dashboard in the Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center to get an executive summary of everything happening with OneDrive so that you can resolve common issues quickly and focus on other strategic tasks as an administrator.

Proactively keeping OneDrive healthy helps ensure that your organization’s information is protected. The dashboard provides you with sync health reports for tracking relevant health issues and advisories, checking the sync status and app version of individual devices, and monitoring Known Folder Move roll out.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 16, 2022 OneDrive for Business 0 Comments

Pausing the Briefing emails from Microsoft Viva

Based on customer feedback we’re taking some time to improve the content of the Briefing emails from Microsoft Viva to be more personalized for each recipient. We will pause sending these emails in early 2023 and will share an updated Briefing email roadmap later in 2023.

When this will happen:

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 16, 2022 Exchange Online 0 Comments

Fixing timestamp format in Teams meeting Transcripts files

We will be rolling out a fix to update the timestamp format in .docx and .vtt Teams meeting transcript files to follow the WebVTT timestamp standard. More specifically, the current timestamp, for example, 0:0:0.0 –> 0:0:1.890, will be updated to 00:00:0.0 –> 00:00:1.890 after this fix gets rolled out.

Note: If your organization does not have a dependency on the timestamp of .docx or .vtt transcript files you can safely disregard this message.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 15, 2022 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

The Devices > Policies page in the Microsoft 365 admin center is retiring

The Devices > Policies page in the Microsoft 365 admin center (https://admin.microsoft.com/Adminportal/Home#/IntunePolicies) is retiring. To view and edit your device policies, you can use one of these options instead: 

• Microsoft 365 Defender (https://security.microsoft.com) 
• Microsoft Intune (https://endpoint.microsoft.com) 

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 15, 2022 Microsoft 365 suite 0 Comments

Microsoft Bookings – Mobile Apps will not be available on Google Playstore and Apple App Store from 01/31/2023

Microsoft Bookings is part of Microsoft 365 suite of products and is available through most commercial SKUs. It is currently available on the Web – Microsoft Bookings, as a Teams App and also on Mobile Apps on Google Playstore and Apple App store.

Bookings will continue to exist on the web and as an App on Teams and there won’t be any loss of data for existing users.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 14, 2022 Microsoft Bookings 0 Comments

Important Information about your Microsoft Power Platform admin center service

Starting in January 2023, administrators will be able to restrict environment creation for Developer environments through Power Platform admin center. Previously, the only way to restrict environment creation was through PowerShell.

For more information on this feature, please refer to this documentation.

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Originally posted by Microsoft Dec 12, 2022 Power Apps 0 Comments